Monthly Archives: September 2009

Maine: No On 1’s Ad #2

A dad talks about his gay daughter in this second ad from No On 1/Protect Maine Equality.

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Swine Flu Rap

New York-based Dr. John Clark is a finalist in the “US Department of Health & Human Services 2009 Flu Prevention PSA Contest.” I guess “face” rhymes with “safe”, sort of.

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New York Senate Marriage Equality Vote Could Come This Month

Our newly beardless governor has renewed his pledge to bring marriage equality to a vote in the New York Senate in a special session he plans to call over the state budget. “I am anticipating a special session and I am anticipating this is one of the issues that we will address,” Paterson told The Advocate Thursday night, shortly after …

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CA Assembly Approves Harvey Milk Day

By a vote of 45-27, the California Assembly has approved a bill creating a statewide holiday to honor gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk. The bill passed in the state Senate earlier this year. The question now is whether the Governator will veto the bill as he did last year. “Although he vetoed a similar bill last year with the message …

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Antibodies Found That Block HIV’s Progression Into AIDS

More encouraging news on the HIV/AIDS front. After 15 years of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent the virus from multiplying in the body and producing severe disease. They do not have a vaccine yet, but they may well have a road map toward the production …

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Olbermann Vs. Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck has really, really outdone himself with the crazy. RELATED: The number of advertisers joining the boycott of Beck’s show has “turned into a torrent.” Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, HSBC, Discover and seven other big firms are yanking their ads from Beck’s show, boycott organizers said Wednesday. “We applaud those companies that have recently pulled their support from Beck,” James …

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Morning View – Madison Square Garden

The fourth incarnation of Madison Square Garden sits atop Penn Station in midtown, about a mile and a half from the actual Madison Square, where the first Garden was built in 1879. The current Garden was built in 1968 at the cost of the grand above-ground Beaux Arts portion of Penn Station (which you know if you are watching Mad …

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Reversal: Task Force Endorses National Equality March

UPDATE: The Task Force writes to note that the below is actually their first official statement on the National Equality March and as such should not be considered a reversal of earlier positions. Reversing the position they gave me in a statement in early June, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has issued an endorsement of the National Equality …

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NY Sen. Ruben Diaz Invites Sarah Palin To “Death Panel” Hearing

Nutcase NY Sen. Ruben Diaz, the minister widely credited with thwarting marriage equality here, has invited Sarah Palin to appear as a witness before a New York Senate Aging Committee hearing on health care reform. The witnesses invited include a host of officials from the medical, political, private insurance, and non-governmental world — each with a clear area of expertise …

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80’s Flashback

Pet Shop Boys, Domino Dancing, 1988. Last night at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom, Pet Shop Boys wove this, their lone foray into freestyle, into a fantastic medley capped by a surprisingly wonderful cover of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida. (Please PSB, put that out commercially.) Domino Dancing was produced by the then-red hot Miami freestyle king Lewis Martinee, who gave us Expose’ …

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Fox News: “Real” Americans Are Taking Back The Nation!

“I’m here because I’m a real American and I want to take this country back from Obama and his czars!!” Followed by the usual cries of socialism and digs at Nancy Pelosi.

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Vermont: Montpelier High School Raises Thousands To Fight Hate

As I mentioned here on Monday, the students at Montpelier High School raised money for every minute that the Westboro nutters protested outside their school on the first day of legal same-sex marriages in Vermont. From their Facebook page: -Number of WBC members who protested outside MHS: 4-Number of legal same-sex marriages that took place today in Vermont: 5-Number of …

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A Letter From ChristWire.com

The author of the ChristWire piece on Andre Bauer that I linked to yesterday sends this letter. Dear Joe, A friend forwarded your article to me and I was thrilled at first because, with your blog’s name, I thought you might be a man of the cloth. Instead I find that you are gallivanting around in the most inappropriate of …

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75 More Layoffs At Focus On The Family

Times are getting really tough for one of the nation’s most nasty anti-gay hate groups. Bwah bwaaaaah. Focus on the Family announced a reorganization Wednesday that will eliminate 75 jobs — an 8 percent reduction in a workforce that already has been cut twice since September 2008. The Colorado Springs-based ministry is shutting down the creative division of its advertising …

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NASA’s Tour Of The Cryosphere

NASA has just posted a chilling time-lapse video of the ongoing collapse of the cryosphere. “It has been said that the frozen parts of our planet, also known as the cryosphere, may be the proverbial ‘canary in the coal mine’ when it comes to climate change. This video shows some of the most dramatic fluctuations to our cryosphere in recent …

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Without Ted, What Now For DADT?

What will happen to the overturn of DADT, now that its lead Senate sponsor is gone? “Sen. Kennedy is the lead sponsor of the bill; obviously with his illness, those issues , any number of issues that he was the leader of are complicated by his absence,” David Scott, vice president of the Human Rights Campaign, which lobbies for gay …

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Train Surfing

I was cracking up yesterday watching the contortions New Yorkers were going through trying not to put their hands on anything on the 6 train. One woman wrapped her leg around the center pole, another used her scarf to hang on to the hand rail. Others tried the surfboard method, riding with legs wide apart, hands flailing for balance. If …

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Maine: First Ad From No On 1

The marriage equality repeal bill made it onto Maine’s ballot yesterday, as expected. Here’s the first official ad from No On 1/Protect Maine Equality. Simple, to the point. I like it.

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Letter Bombs At Rome Gay Bar

Two “letter bombs” were thrown at a gay bar in Rome yesterday, leaving several people with injuries. There was widespread panic when two letter bombs were thrown at a bar in a gay neighbourhood in the centre of the Italian capital Rome late Tuesday in an escalation of anti-gay violence. Italian media reports said the explosive devices were thrown from …

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Signorile Vs. NOM’s Brian Brown

After his loving hagiography from the Washington Post, NOM’s Brian Brown felt brave enough to take on Michelangelo Signorile. Mistake.

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